Poets, Novelists, Artists and Whatnot

agitpunkt

Hello All,

My girlfriend and I just moved into a condo on 23rd, I'm a writer (majored in poetry, current playwright), and I was wondering about the Greenwood Heights/Sunset Park arts community. Is there a place where people do readings? Any local theater groups/zines/etc? Who are the local visual artists and musicians?

- Stephen

rtraindweller

my roommate and i are songwriters and occasionally pop into open mic night at The Living Room. haveta get a few more gos at it before we move away next month =

agitpunkt

rtraindweller wrote: my roommate and i are songwriters and occasionally pop into open mic night at The Living Room. haveta get a few more gos at it before we move away next month =

I've been wanting to check out the open mike, let me know when you perform.

simian_sam

Gallery Players is one of the better off off broadway playhouses in the city. It is on 14th Street between 4th & 5th avenues. Every June they do a "Black Box New Play Festival." You can submit plays for this starting in the spring I believe.

The original Broadway director of Urinetown is an alum, as is Harvey Fierstein.

http://galleryplayers.com/

Oh - and welcome to the neighborhood!

agitpunkt

simian_sam wrote: Gallery Players is one of the better off off broadway playhouses in the city. It is on 14th Street between 4th & 5th avenues. Every June they do a "Black Box New Play Festival." You can submit plays for this starting in the spring I believe.

The original Broadway director of Urinetown is an alum, as is Harvey Fierstein.

http://galleryplayers.com/

Oh - and welcome to the neighborhood!

Thanks a lot!

Having a theater withing walking distance is great, and their upcoming season looks really good.

lostingreenwoodhts

http://www.lungfull.org/battlehill/index.html

Ought to be a great event. Tracey runs a monthly series at BBQ on 20th, but this will be a much larger event. She and her husband (also 23rd Streeters) are both poets/artist/designer types. Seem we have a lot on the block

rtraindweller

Agitpunkt wrote: [quote=rtraindweller]my roommate and i are songwriters and occasionally pop into open mic night at The Living Room. haveta get a few more gos at it before we move away next month =

I've been wanting to check out the open mike, let me know when you perform.

will do! we'll probably be there next week and hopefully once more before we pack it up and say goodbye at the end of the month. gonna miss this area...

agitpunkt

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: http://www.lungfull.org/battlehill/index.html

Damn, we have a wedding to go to that evening; I'll definitely check out the BBQ series though, thanks a lot.